While hosting his “Meanwhile” skit, Colbert mentioned that Rowling had finally spoken out, some may say unnecessarily, about Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s “intense” love relationship in the DVD extras for “Fantastic Beasts 2”.

Colbert quipped, “That’s right — Dumbledore was a Gryffindor in the streets, a Slytherin in the sheets.”

The author has been receiving backlash from Harry Potter fans since the news emerged online.

Like, way to miss the point and undermine everything you COULD have done to rectify the mistake of leaving Dumbledore’s orientation out of canon. This further reduces queer relationships and queer characters just to sex in media commentary. Which is the last thing we needed.

She said of the characters, according to Mashable: “Their relationship was incredibly intense. It was passionate, and it was a love relationship. But as happens in any relationship, gay or straight or whatever label we want to put on it, one never knows, really, what the other person is feeling.

“So I’m less interested in the sexual side — though I believe there is a sexual dimension to this relationship — than I am in the sense of the emotions they felt for each other, which ultimately is the most fascinating thing about all human relationships,” Rowling added.